I was running. It seemed as if I was running all the time. From my abusive mom, from cops, from bullies and now I was running from that... thing behind me. Whatever it was it wasn't human.

This had all started about an hour ago when I was caught shoplifting a Honda civic from a car dealership. It was pretty normal at first, the officer clasped handcuffs around my wrists and shoved me into the back of his police cruiser. He kept trying to talk to me as he took me down to the station. He kept asking me stupid questions.

"What's your name son" asked the cop who had a southern drawl.

"Sam McMillan, now just shut up" I said annoyed.

"Look kid I need you to give me your street address and home phone so we can notify your parents" he said as he gazed at him through the rear view mirror.

"Ha!" I exclaimed "it's not like she'll answer, probably to Damn drunk to answer the phone"

The officers expression turned into one of interest now.

"So your mom's a drunk then I'm assuming, what about your father" he asked

"Never met him, ran out on us before I was even born" I said flatly as I stared out the window.

"Hmm, interesting" he said now eying me up and down as if sizing up an opponent.

Suddenly the car slowly started to roll off to the side of the road.

"What's happening" I asked slightly concerned.

"Ah shit we have a flat tire, I'll need you to get out as I fix it" he said throwing open the door.

I grinned slightly as an idea hatched in my mind on how I could get out of this situation.

The door was opened and I stepped out of the car.

I stepped out into the hot afternoon sun and stepped behind the officer as he assessed the tire.

"Crap it looks like the back tire is completely punctured I'll need to-"

Before he could finished I slammed the heel of my foot into the back of his head causing his face to slam into the side of the car with a cracking noise as his nose snapped dripping blood onto the ground.

He lay on the ground motionless and I nudged him with my foot to make sure he was unconscious.

I grinned ear to ear as he remained motionless and I quickly searched him for the keys. I found them on his belt and I unclasped the handcuffs and threw them on the ground.

"Who's the stupid little kid now bitch" I laughed triumphantly.

I turned around with a happy smile on my face ready to walk away and go home. I had walked only a few steps when I stopped dead as an ear shattering screech sounded behind me. I turned slowly scared shitless of what could have possibly made that noise.

I froze in terror at what I saw. The cop was no longer there but what was there was a creepy looking half chicken half human creature.

"I've underestimated you child of Hermes but now you will die" it squeaked. It's voice had the consistency of a twelve year old boy going through puberty.

It lunged out with its talons and wings trying to claw my chest. I jumped to the side at the last second leaving it clawing at the air where I had been standing seconds earlier. That's when I started running.

My chest burned and my legs ached. I wouldn't be able to run much longer and whatever was behind me didn't seem to be tired. Every time I stopped to take a breath I could hear it's wings fluttering and the sound of its feet pounding on the ground.

I stopped and leaned up against a tree as sweat flooded down my face. The sun felt as if was burning through my skin as I stood there.

"You fool no amount of running can save you just face your fate and die" it hissed as it came up behind me.

"Not while I'm still breathing" I growled

"You speak bravely but there is no way you can possibly defeat me" it said.

But even as it spoke I could tell it was doubtful of its own words and looked around nervously. I decided to use this to my advantage.

"Yea that's right you know where we are, and help should be here any second" I bluffed

There was a moment of silence as it seemed to consider what I had just said.

"Your bluffing" it said confidently "now I shall dispose of you"

It lunged out at me and I barely managed to duck under its talons. I frantically searched the ground for something to use as a weapon I could use. My hands clasped around a rock about the size of my fist. I swung it around blindly trying to hit it.

The rock managed to make contact with its face causing a horrible cracking noise.

Feathers fell from its body as it stumbled back and collided with a tree.

I charged at it rock in hand while it was dazed and struck it in the chest.

A gold liquid oozed out of it's chest from where the rock had left a large cut. It let out a terribly loud high pitched screech and lunged out at me.

This time I wasn't fast enough and it's talons grabbed my shoulders. Pain seared through my body as talons ripped my flesh open causing blood to squirt out from the wound.

I was then flung into a tree and my senses were jarred as the back of my head slammed into the ground.

It's voice was muffled as it stood over me. This is it I thought. I'm going to die in this weird unrealistic way by a fucking half human half chicken thing.

As it raised its talons to finish me off a blurry of silver flashed across my field of vision and impaled itself in the wing of the creature. It took me a second to realize that it was an arrow then another impaled its scrawny leg.

The finishing move was executed by a blonde haired girl who ran up and impaled the knife into the creatures chest.

The weird chicken thing turned to dust and blew away in the wind.

Another person with black hair and sea green eyes ran over to me and helped me up.

His lips moved as he tried to say something but I my ears were still ringing.

"Are you alright" he asked as my ears stopped ringing.

"Percy those cuts on his shoulder look pretty nasty" said the blonde girl. I couldn't help but notice her stormy grey eyes.

"Alright then let's get him to the infirmary" said Percy.

"Who are you" I asked weakly

"We're demigods just like you" said the blonde.

"A what?" I asked confused.

"Yea and your lucky me, Anabeth, and Frank were nearby or else that harpy would've torn you to bits" Percy said as he helped me walk.

"The who now" I asked even more confused.

"Don't worry we'll explain it all when we get to camp." Said Anabeth.

I wanted to say something but exhaustion coarsed through my body and my vision went dark. The last thing I remember before slipping out of consciousness was seeing a big muscular kid in a purple t-shirt running towards me.

Hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter. Also please review the description of characters you want to see in future chapters as well as their god parent, the first five are going to be the main characters alongside Sam.